SOVIET UNION: A Warning for Sakharov

It has become almost embarrassingly
routine for Soviet officials to attack Andrei Sakharov for criticizing
Russian repression. Recently the Soviet physicist changed his target to
the Middle East war and, true to form, he ran into trouble for his
views. This time, however, he did not get the verbal abuse he receives
so often in the Soviet press, but rather 75 minutes of terror at the
hands of two Arab activists.

In a brief interview with a Lebanese journalist, Sakharov had called on
the Communist powers not to "interfere" in the Arab-Israeli
conflict, and had urged the West to "take...